On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Russ Cox <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rsc@swtch.com">rsc@swtch.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">I believe the state of the art is not to use tcl.  :-)<br></div>
I&#39;m having fun writing 9p clients in Go.<br>
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Russ<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>Sure, tcl isn&#39;t as popular as Go right now.<br><br>Still, tcl is appealing in some ways.<br><br><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html">http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html</a><br>
<br>Was wondering if Go could be summarized as Plan 9 in language-space.<br><br>(Ready... aim... fire)<br><br>It seems like Plan 9 already &quot;got it right&quot; in the systems realm.<br><br>(Arguments against Ousterhout&#39;s dichotomy, fire away)<br>
<br>Seems like Plan 9 and tcl/tk would complement each other well.<br><br>Also, this is somewhat unrelated, but I was wondering whether each Go executable contains the garbage collector.  (It must, it seems, but just checking).<br>
<br> - Leonard<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>